Mango cult

In it, two groups of Red Guards, the Jinggangshan Corps and the Fours, hurled spears, stones, and sulfuric acid at each other.

[5] On August 5, 1968, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Mian Arshad Hussain, visited Mao and gifted him a box of Sindhri mangoes.

The gift of the fruits coincided with the transfer of the Cultural Revolution's stewardship from China's intelligentsia to the working class.

[6] Workers soon began to venerate wax models of mangoes and parade them around the country, punishing anyone who disrespected them as counterrevolutionaries.

He was put on trial for malicious slander, found guilty, paraded publicly throughout the town, and then executed with one shot to the head.

Various mango-themed products were sold, such as bed sheets, vanity stands, enamel trays and mugs, pencil cases, mango-scented soap, and mango-flavored cigarettes, often accompanied by patriotic slogans and images of Mao.

[1] However, before the film was finished, Mao Zedong died, representing the loss of the revolutionary figurehead of the Cultural Revolution.

An image of a Sindhri mango on display
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